(International) 2022 Nobel Prize Awarding Ceremony Held in Stockholm

Xinhua News Agency, Stockholm, December 10 (Reporter He Miao) The award ceremony for the 2022 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Economics was held in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, on December 10.
French scientist Alain Aspe, American scientist John Krause and Austrian scientist Anton Zeilinger won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics; the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry were American scientists Caroline Bertozzi, Karl Barry Sharpless and Danish scientist Morten Merdahl; Physiology or Medicine went to Swedish scientist Svante Pepper; Economics went to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dee Bouvig three economists won; the literary prize was awarded to the French woman writer Anne Ernau.
After representatives of the selection committee introduced the achievements of the winners, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden presented Nobel Prize certificates, medals and bonuses to each winner. The prize money for each Nobel Prize this year is 10 million Swedish kronor (about 970,000 U.S. dollars).
Due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, the 2020 and 2021 Nobel Prize award ceremonies have been changed to online. The Nobel Prize winners of the past two years are also invited to attend this year’s on-site ceremony. More than a thousand people, including key members of the Swedish royal family and political leaders, attended the award ceremony that day.
December 10 is the anniversary of the death of the Swedish chemist and inventor Nobel, and the annual Nobel Prize award ceremony is held on this day. (Finish)